Karen Hargrove
Compassionate guidance for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Karen
Karen Hargrove is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside a wide range of emotional challenges. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, and help with parenting and life transitions.
Her style is straightforward and supportive, aiming to help clients feel more confident in their everyday choices. In sessions she centers each person’s own strengths and life experience.
Background and approach
She encourages practical steps that can be tried between meetings. Conversations focus on clearer decision making, emotion management, and ways to improve important relationships. With ten years of experience, Karen brings steady clinical practice and a calm presence to the work.
She has a background helping those with mood disorders, ADHD, grief, and issues related to gender and multicultural identities. She also addresses first responder stress, compassion fatigue, and concerns common to young adults and women. Therapy can include short-term coaching and tools for coping with crisis or change.
She tailors approaches to fit each person’s goals and the current challenges they face. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging. Karen’s license is GA LPC LPC008359, which indicates her credential as a Licensed Professional Counselor.
People who are curious about next steps can use the platform’s Start Therapy process to match and schedule a session.
Online approaches that fit busy family lives
Therapeutic coaching and skills-based work focuses on concrete tools people can use right away. This approach helps with stress, parenting challenges, anger management, and coping with life changes by teaching problem-solving steps and emotion regulation techniques.Evidence-informed mood-focused strategies aim to reduce symptoms of depression, bipolar mood swings, and anxiety through regular check-ins and structured techniques. These methods help people notice patterns, try small behavior changes, and track what improves their daily mood.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they adjust methods over time so the plan stays useful and realistic for family and parenting demands.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, while phone, live chat, and text messaging provide brief check-ins and ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into parenting routines and other responsibilities without long commutes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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